We are looking to empower teachers so that they can empower our students and thus lead to better opportunities for them, the people that our companies will hire and the country as a whole. We focus on teacher training, and the biggest setback with training is the teacher's time to attend training and their ability to retain the information they have been taught in a face-to-face workshop/training. With this in mind, we created an online teacher training portal (LMS) where teachers can go and participate in a course in their own time, on any device and anywhere in the country (provided they have access to the internet, with your help and other companies we are looking to get our site whitelisted which means you don't need data to access our site, but we need to get teachers on board for this to happen). 

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Our platform (feel free to visit it here) looks currently at technology in education and soft skills and we are launching our curriculum content - (this year). This will focus on supporting teachers with content for their specific subjects, we will be starting with the core subjects and then expanding when we have more teachers on board. We have over 60 online accredited courses (we are registered with SACE (South African Council for Educators) - whom each teacher must register with to teach in this country). Teachers are required to earn CPTD points through various self-initiated training (reading a newspaper article, watching a webinar, attending online or face-to-face courses). All our courses are accredited and carry SACE points. We also have over 40 recorded webinars on the platform and a typing course for teachers to improve their typing. Every month we add a new course and recorded webinar, we also circle back and update courses that need updating to keep them relevant. Currently, our courses are in English and we have started adding CC (Closed Captions) in Zulu and Afrikaans, again with your support we ideally want the videos to be spoken in each language. 

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Access to the platform for a single sponsorship of a teacher is R200 per calendar year. You will be listed on the Wall of Fame, and throughout my year of racing, you will have marketing opportunities directly and indirectly tied to your contribution. 

 

For companies that want to sponsor more teachers, our Diamond (1000 teachers), Platinum (500 teachers) and Gold (250 teachers) sponsors have the chance to get their branding on our race kits, bikes, travelling kits, website, and social pages. We have had to limit this offer to 6 companies to maximize their branding on the above.

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There are various ways in which you can empower our teachers:

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1) Make a straight sponsorship/donation 

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2) In a partnership with Project Liberate  (NPO 246-180) companies can use their Social Development or Corporate Social Responsibility Spend, and Section 18a letters are available for this sponsorship/donation.

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3) Some companies have chosen to donate and use this for marketing and do not follow the CSR or NPO route. 

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4) If you or your company has eBucks with FNB, these can be used to sponsor teachers through our relationship with the eBucks team and store.

 

We do follow up with reporting and feedback to teachers, schools and sponsors should they require this to validate their interest and commitment.

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Some of our existing sponsors, sponsor in various ways;

 

1) Some companies make a smaller contribution on a monthly basis eg. sponsoring 10 teachers a month 

2) Some companies have given one-off sponsorship

3) Some companies have used their social spending through our NPO partner.

4) A couple of individuals have used their FNB/RMB eBucks as a means to sponsor teachers

If this interests you, please reach out. Let's empower teachers and, in turn, empower our students and our country.